Rick Nelson

Country Fever

Rick Nelson - Country Fever

04/17/1967

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All Music Guide Review

Country Fever continued the country direction of Nelson's previous album, Bright Lights & Country Music, and the approach of each record was similarly weighted toward interpretations of country classics. Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and Acuff-Rose all get covered here, and his sensitive reading of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" is a standout. There's no denying, though, that the best cut is the one that gets closest to rockabilly (a cover of "Mystery Train"). Nelson's two original compositions weren't much, but on the other hand there was an obscure Bob Dylan tune that the composer had not released ("Walkin' Down the Line"), and "Things You Gave Me," with its steady beat and harmonies, sounded more like a foreshadowing of late-'60s California country rock than anything else Nelson had recorded up to this point. The album has been combined with 1966's Bright Lights & Country Music onto a single-disc CD reissue on Kent. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Country Fever Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Take a City Bride

  • 2
  • Funny How Time Slips Away

  • 3
  • The Bridge Washed Out

  • 4
  • Alone

  • 5
  • Big Chief Buffalo Nickel (Desert Blues)

  • 6
  • Mystery Train

  • 7
  • Things You Gave Me

  • 8
  • Take These Chains from My Heart

  • 9
  • (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle

  • 10
  • Walkin' Down the Line

  • 11
  • You Win Again

  • 12
  • Salty Dog

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